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Re: debconf BUG ?



Le samedi 21 février 2009 11:12, Colin Watson a écrit :
|> On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 04:19:37PM +0100, Anthony wrote:
|> > Le vendredi 20 février 2009 14:46, Colin Watson a écrit :
|> > |> On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 05:27:15PM +0100, Anthony wrote:
|> > |> > it seems that a error occur during the partman installation,
|> > |> > 
|> > |> > the debconf seems to be wrong...
|> > |> > 
|> > |> > after an install, and a debconf-get-selections --installer
|> > |> > 
|> > |> > I get somethink like :
|> > |> > 
|> > |> > "partman-auto	partman-auto/init_automatically_partition	select	50some_device__________regular"
|> > |> 
|> > |> I don't see the error; this appears to be as expected. You should be a
|> > |> bit more verbose when reporting things you think are wrong, really.
|> > 
|> > sorry
|> > i forgotted to say that the message occurs during etch-and-a-half installation...
|> > 
|> > AND
|> > 
|> > i just wanted to know if it is a bug or not and If t's  a bug, inform
|> > about this bug...:!!!!
|> 
|> No, it's not a bug.
|> 
|> > and i know,
|> > 
|> > read doc..;
|> > 
|> > i read the doc B
|> > 
|> > and i don't agree with you, doc has not copious informations :
|> > the only information about partitionning is :
|> > ### Partitioning
|> > # If the system has free space you can choose to only partition that space.
|> > #d-i partman-auto/init_automatically_partition select biggest_free
|> > 
|> > do you think this has copious about init_automatically_partition ?
|> 
|> It would help if you read a little bit further rather than misquoting
|> what I said ...
|> 
|> partman-auto/init_automatically_partition is *not* normally the question
|> that you want to preseed in order to perform automatic partitioning;
|> normally, you would instead preseed partman-auto/disk and
|> partman-auto/method, and perhaps either partman-auto/choose_recipe or
|> partman-auto/expert_recipe if you aren't satisfied with the default
|> partition layout.
|> 
|> The only case in practice where you'd want to preseed
|> partman-auto/init_automatically_partition is that documented in the
|> installation guide, quoted above, where you want to automatically
|> partition only free space on a disk that already contains other
|> partitions.
|> 
|> If you need detailed information on the format of
|> partman-auto/expert_recipe, it's here:
|> 
|>   http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/d-i/trunk/installer/doc/devel/partman-auto-recipe.txt?op=file&rev=0&sc=0
|> 
|> Regards,
|> 
Hi

i very sorry, i have read the doc several times but i not understood the preseed partman-auto/init_automatically_partition : only use it to use free space.

OK NOW  it's clear


Anthony


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